Optimization of Thin-Film Configuration for Light-Addressable Stimulation Electrode
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- Suzurikawa Jun
- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
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- Kanzaki Ryohei
- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
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- Nakao Masayuki
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
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- Jimbo Yasuhiko
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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- Takahashi Hirokazu
- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
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- 光アドレス型刺激電極の薄膜構成最適化
- ヒカリ アドレスガタ シゲキ デンキョク ノ ハクマク コウセイ サイテキカ
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Abstract
Light addressing is an emerging technique to optically address a virtual electrode on a photoconductive substrate. A thinner photoconductive layer of a light-addressable planar electrode can improve the spatial resolution of the light-addressed electrode. Voltage application to the electrode, however, causes strong electric field across the thin photoconductive layer with a significant avalanche effect, which induces undesired increase of dark current. Here, in order to overcome this problem, we investigated how photoconductive-layer thickness and passivation-layer conductivity impact on voltage-application-induced bright and dark charge densities. Consequently, suppression of dark charge density with thick photoconductive layer and low-conductive passivation layer is a key factor for optimization of light-addressable electrode. With this designing strategy, we developed a novel light-addressable electrode using titanium dioxide as photoconductor. To suppress avalanche effect, the thickness of the titanium-dioxide layer was designed to be 1.5 μm. The fabricated electrode turned out to have a sufficient photoelectric property; the bright charge density reached up to 70 μC/cm2 and the bright to dark charge density ratio, over 10, which can realize stimulation to cultured dissociated neurons.
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- IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
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IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems 128 (7), 1043-1049, 2008
The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390282679581698560
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- NII Article ID
- 10021132969
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- NII Book ID
- AN10065950
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- ISSN
- 13488155
- 03854221
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- NDL BIB ID
- 9563472
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- JaLC
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